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Why greed exist? For what is it good for?

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how do you define greed?

what is it about a person using ones labor in the way he see fit, gives you the individual, the ability to judge what he may or may not take? how much is "too much" ? how much is just not "greedy"?

who decides what is greedy and what isnt?

is a well fed man eating food in front of a starving man, greedy?

is a man earning well abound more than he could ever spend in his life, greedy?

greed doesn't exist, point to me the greed particle. you cant.

greed only exists in your own mind when placing moral judgements on the actions of others. so therefore is your moral judgement of an action of another greedy, in the sense of you wanting your actions to not be perceived as "greed"?

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StellarStoic 1y ago

The point you make that greed only exist in my mind is quite interesting and I'll try to do something about my perception of it 🫂

Thanks

TK SuitCoin.exe 80HpW 1y ago

Its just how I've come to think of it in my thinking about these terms. In every instance of its usage it's always been used as a term in order to defame or make another seem "bad"

I've been reading Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand and i think greedy & Selfishness can be used interchangeably.

Is it greedy for a man to concern himself with his own needs, before that of others? Can a man sustain himself, if he doesn't "greedly" concern himself with his own matters before others?

To be one of a martyr in lieu of being seen or perceived as not "greedy" by sacrificing himself for the sake of others leads to a world where one always expects another to sacrifice themselves for his own sake or be ostracized by society for being too "greedy"?

Just thoughts I've had about the word and how people use it. Not sure if it is true or not but i do believe it is worth podering a bit deeper if we are to use it to call another "greedy"